Portrait of Pablo Picasso
circa 1920-1925
Francis Picabia reduces the father of Cubism, Pablo Picasso, to a strikingly simple, almost cartoonish face in this ink drawing from the early 1920s. With bold black strokes for the hair and wide, staring eyes, Picabia strips away all the complex geometry Picasso was famous for, replacing it with a playful, almost childlike simplicity. This minimalist approach was classic Picabia, a Dadaist provocateur who loved to poke fun at the art world's sacred cows, even his own famous peers. It's a brilliant visual joke from an artist who constantly reinvented himself.
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